A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Charisse L’Pree examines the historical representation of women in the sitcom and traces the development of what she terms the “Single City Girl” archetype.
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Read moreCasey McCormick uses the Twitter reaction to the end of the Obama administration as a jumping off point to explain why finales matter and how audiences express an ambivalence regarding the ends of longform televisual storytelling.
Read moreMeg Hansen describes the “styled identity” and its articulation in Gossip Girl (2007-2012), demonstrating the dialogic between aesthetics and female identities, self-presentation and selfhood, in the specular economies of postmodern media and culture.
Read moreAlexis Carreiro explores Ghostbusters‘s (2016) deployment of a queef joke in relation to the gendered history of fart jokes and the feminist implications of and social strictures against women making noise, both bodily and politically.
Read moreGermaine Halegoua considers how virtual assistants like Alexa represent a shift from the imagination of the smart home as a space of ambient screens to ambient interfaces for continual background listening.
Read moreHollis Griffin discusses the popularity of Biden memes, their relation to gendered political discourse, and suggests memes like “Pussy Grabs Back” will persist instead while providing political motivation without similar gender trappings.
Read moreVíctor Navarro-Remesal and Ignacio Bergillos discuss the relation between post-fact politics and “redpillers,” a loosely organized online community of users espousing an awakening to a conspiracy of injustices brought on by “social justice warriors”, radical feminism, and political correctness.
Read moreMelissa Zimdars examines the public’s distrust of mainstream news reporting, and argues their coverage in fact contributes to this distrust through “information infidelity” – the process of inaccurately or imprecisely copying, reproducing, and/or relaying information that may already be based on questionable or unreliable sources.
Read moreMaggie Hennefeld explores the use of humor in the contemporary political landscape, and suggests we need to find a way to employ satire to repoliticize civic discourse in American society.
Read moreSushant Kishore explores digital media, the performance of communitas and political partisanship, and posthuman social media communities through a comparative discussion of India’s 2014 General Election and the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election.
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